DevSecOps Manager
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About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled DevSecOps Section Manager to establish and lead the enterprise DevSecOps practice within a Digital Infrastructure & Systems Department. The role involves building and operating a modern DevSecOps ecosystem supporting government-scale digital services and hybrid multi-cloud environments.
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Responsibilities
- Establish and lead the DevSecOps Section, including organizational structure, operating model, and roadmap
- Build, mentor, and manage a high performing DevSecOps engineering team
- Define team KPIs, SLAs, technical standards, and governance processes
- Manage project delivery timelines, resource planning, workload prioritization, and stakeholder expectations
- Drive Agile and DevSecOps culture adoption across internal teams and government entities
- Coordinate with Infrastructure, Security, Operations, Digital, and Architecture teams to ensure seamless integration and service delivery
- Conduct performance management, coaching, technical mentoring, and capability development for engineers
- Lead vendor coordination, technical workshops, onboarding, and enterprise platform adoption initiatives
- Design, implement, and manage enterprise CI/CD platforms using GitLab and related DevOps toolchains
- Build secure CI/CD pipelines with integrated security scanning, compliance validation, and automated testing
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps methodologies
- Standardize DevSecOps onboarding frameworks for applications and development teams
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
- Master’s degree is preferred
- Minimum 12+ years in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, or Platform Engineering
- Minimum 7+ years in DevOps/DevSecOps leadership or management role
- Strong experience managing enterprise scale DevSecOps and container platforms
- Proven experience in hybrid cloud and Kubernetes/OpenShift environments
- Experience in government, enterprise shared services, or large scale regulated environments is highly preferred
- Strong expertise in Red Hat OpenShift administration and architecture
- Strong expertise in GitLab CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices
- Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and hybrid cloud integration
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containers, microservices, and platform engineering
- Hands on experience with automation and IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Helm
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Job Summary
- We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevSecOps Section Manager to establish, lead, and manage the enterprise DevSecOps practice within our Digital Infrastructure & Systems Department. The role is responsible for building and operating a modern DevSecOps ecosystem that supports government
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and lead the DevSecOps Section, including organizational structure, operating model, and roadmap
- Build, mentor, and manage a high performing DevSecOps engineering team
- Define team KPIs, SLAs, technical standards, and governance processes
- Manage project delivery timelines, resource planning, workload prioritization, and stakeholder expectations
- Drive Agile and DevSecOps culture adoption across internal teams and government entities
- Coordinate with Infrastructure, Security, Operations, Digital, and Architecture teams to ensure seamless integration and service delivery
- Conduct performance management, coaching, technical mentoring, and capability development for engineers
- Lead vendor coordination, technical workshops, onboarding, and enterprise platform adoption initiatives
Technical & Platform Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage enterprise CI/CD platforms using GitLab and related DevOps toolchains
- Build secure CI/CD pipelines with integrated security scanning, compliance validation, and automated testing
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps methodologies
- Standardize DevSecOps onboarding frameworks for applications and development teams
- Manage enterprise Kubernetes/OpenShift environments using Red Hat OpenShift
- Lead container platform architecture, multi cluster operations, governance, scalability, resiliency, and platform security
- Support containerized workloads, microservices, and platform engineering initiatives
- Implement enterprise grade backup, DR, HA, storage integration, and monitoring for container platforms
- Manage DevSecOps integration across hybrid cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure and private cloud infrastructure
- Enable secure cloud native application deployment pipelines
- Implement automation and orchestration across cloud and on premise platforms
- Support multi cloud operational models and cloud governance standards
Security & Compliance
- Embed security controls into the software delivery lifecycle (DevSecOps approach)
- Integrate SAST, DAST, container security, secrets management, vulnerability management, and compliance automation into CI/CD pipelines
- Ensure alignment with cybersecurity and digital sovereignty standards
- Collaborate with Security Operations and GRC teams on risk remediation and compliance initiatives
Observability & Monitoring
- Lead enterprise observability and monitoring strategy implementation
- Implement centralized logging, tracing, monitoring, and performance analytics platforms
- Integrate observability solutions across Kubernetes, cloud, middleware, applications, and infrastructure layers
- Drive proactive monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and reliability engineering practices
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
- Master’s degree is preferred
- Minimum 12+ years in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, or Platform Engineering
- Minimum 7+ years in DevOps/DevSecOps leadership or management role
- Strong experience managing enterprise scale DevSecOps and container platforms
- Proven experience in hybrid cloud and Kubernetes/OpenShift environments
- Experience in government, enterprise shared services, or large scale regulated environments is highly preferred
Skills & Competencies
- Strong expertise in Red Hat OpenShift administration and architecture
- Strong expertise in GitLab CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices
- Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and hybrid cloud integration
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containers, microservices, and platform engineering
- Hands on experience with automation and IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Helm
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps security controls and secure SDLC
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry
- Experience with API integration, automation frameworks, and enterprise middleware integration
- Knowledge of Linux, networking, storage, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure concepts
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management capabilities
- Excellent team management and mentoring skills
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and decision making abilities
- Ability to work under pressure in enterprise operational environments
- Strong presentation and reporting skills for management and executive leadership
- Ability to drive transformation initiatives and organizational change
Preferred Certifications
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
- Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
- GitLab Certified CI/CD Associate or Professional
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Certification
- Terraform Associate Certification
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
- DevSecOps Foundation Certification
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